GKR, international group in rubber industry, has implemented in 3 months an exemplary purchase-production-sales data acquisition and management system for 14 subsidiaries in China and south-east Asia, through worldwide deployment of offline HTML5 Application, central ERP5 open source platform and GrandeNet application delivery network.

Nexedi released today the first open source lightning protection egovernment platform after studying during 9-months the business process of lightning protection in China. The platform is built on the ERP5 workflow with full customization to Chinese lightning protection business process and decision-making flow, together with modern e-business features: e-signature, document management, real-time image capturing, geo-location, mobile access. etc.

Wendelin has just announced the new 0.4 alpha release. This release focuses on reducing installation time for Debian 8.1 (64bit) while also fixing a number of performance bugs and providing a fully functional development instance able to run live tests and allowing anyone to develop on top of Wendelin. This post also introduces the Wendelin research project, technical stack and provides a short tutorial on how
to get started using Wendelin.

For an ongoing project we were required to run ERP5 on remote locations in China with no reliable internet access. We gave Thuraya a try, which provides internet access using their satellite broadband terminals and used a RenderJS-based HTML5 offline-capable ERP5 interface which stores and synchronizes data using jIO and runs on NayuOS ensuring a minimum of data being sent up- and downstream.

Nexedi is a member of the Open PaaS research project aiming to develop an open-source alternative to Google Docs and other similar cloud-based solutions for communication and collaboration. As part of Open PAAS Nexedi has just released a new version of our XMPP Jabber Client on Officejs.com adding offline contact chat history availability and improved error handling.

The last days of July also were Ayush's last days of his traineeship in Lille and
since we had talked "crêpes" on several occasions we decided to organize
an afterwork competition with all nationalities facing off for a proper
farewell bid to Ayush. Team Canada was crowned the eventual winner in a competition
that showed Nexedians from all over the world to be just as innovative on the
crêpes machine as when developing.

Last week we took this summer's group of trainees for a weekend trip to the Côte d'Opale - including hassle-full, early morning train traversals, bumper-car-your-trainee-colleague and camping with rain and fireworks. A weekend well spent.

Today we launched our new Nexedi website (www.nexedi.com) - the first site done with our new "simplicity" theme. Other websites will follow soon and give Nexedi a more polished, responsive and up-to-date look.

UNG Docs 1.0 Open Source Web Office Suite has been released during CONSEGI 2011 in Brasilia and at the same time during Solutions Linux exhibition in Paris. UNG Docs was successfully implemented at Instituto Federal Fluminense in Brazil on a SlapOS distributed Cloud to provide productivity application to students and researchers. UNG Docs is part of the "UNG is Not G....." for a Free Cloud.